The phrase "act that did" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a specific action that was performed, but it lacks context and clarity.
Example: "The act that did lead to the changes was unexpected."
Alternatives: "action that occurred" or "deed that took place".
I was unable to stop their irresponsible tax cuts, the war in Iraq, and a Patriot Act that did not include civil liberties".
The single act that did most to bring the US into the war was Roosevelt's freeze on Japanese funds in July, and embargo on oil shipments to Japan.
Britain, until now, prided itself on managing new arrivals relatively well, with a Race Relations Act that did change behaviour, suppressing hate-speech.
The latter requirement has proven difficult for many corporations as they are far less likely to have a list of stockholders as of the date of a defective corporate act (that did not occur on a record date) than as of a particular record date.
During the debate, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and a member of the Intelligence Committee, said that the executive branch had come up with a secret legal theory about what it could collect under a provision of the Patriot Act that did not seem to dovetail with a plain reading of the text.
The restored statue was again beheaded in 2002 – an act that did not elicit a tenth of the media outrage that accompanied the vandalisation of the Macquarie and Cook statues in Hyde Park at the height of the "statue wars" in 2017.
"This is an unworthy act that does not dignify the association," said the science minister, Yaakov Peri.
This is one circus act that doesn't rely on dependable gimmicks to keep the audience amused.
Pushing for a monument via a overly exercised "Antiquities act" that does not incorporate "the voice of the people" in typical legislative manner is also extreme.
But it could just as easily be pitched as a right-leaning fix to the act that doesn't muck with its overall approach.
